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BG.781.030
24 Dec 1781:11,12,13 (1426)
On the fall of General Earl Cornwallis who with above eight
thousand men, surrendered themselves prisoners of war to the
renowned and illustrious general George Washington,
commander in chief of the allied armies of America and
France, on the memorable 19th of October. 1781.
Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,
That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile
Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh.
Before this earthly prison of their bones:
. . . [2 & 2/3ds cols. in all]
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